Cybersecurity
Defense Digital Service, Army Open New Cyber Training Center Dubbed Tatooine
The new collaboration space will be used to pilot new solutions and help train and retain future cyber soldiers.
IT Modernization
Air Force Turns to GSA For $5.5 Billion Next-Gen IT Contract
The 2GIT contract will replace the Air Force’s NETCENTS-2 vehicle and will be open to all government buyers.
Cybersecurity
DOD Invests $34 Million in Hack the Pentagon Expansion
The new contract adds a third vendor and allows agencies to tap pre-vetted hackers throughout a product’s life cycle.
Data
Official: Upcoming Data Strategy Shouldn’t Mean More Work for Feds
The strategy’s action items will focus on how agencies can make better use of the data and programs already in place.
CIO Briefing
OMB Announces Permanent U.S. Digital Service Leadership
The roles will now have two-year term limits and will no longer be presidential appointees.
Ideas
Report Offers Options For Effectively Using Blockchain in Government
Blockchain is often seen as an over-hyped technology. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its uses.
CIO Briefing
GSA Hopes eBuy Transparency Will Lead To More Competition, Not More Protests
A select group of buyers will be posting their award information on FedBizOpps during the one-year pilot.
CIO Briefing
FEMA Wants a New Way to Verify Survivors After Disasters
The new system will need to handle up to 750,000 cases at the same time to ensure survivors get what they need while fraudsters get shut out.
CIO Briefing
Tech Industry Group Dissolves Public Sector Division
An Information Technology Industry Council reorganization is changing how it will push for government IT issues.
Data
Have Ideas on How Agencies Can Actually Use All Their Data?
The Federal Data Strategy team wants feedback on its framework for how agencies can leverage their data.
IT Modernization
FBI Drops Full and Open Competition for $5 Billion IT Recompete
The bureau will turn to GSA’s schedules to fill out its IT Supplies and Support Services contract.
IT Modernization
Agencies Can’t Dine and Dash on Technology Modernization Fund, Official Says
Awards are an advance, not a grant, and the program office has ways to make sure the fund stays solvent.
Emerging Tech
Defense Innovation Board to Explore the Ethics of AI in War
The advisory group will provide the Pentagon with recommendations after hearing from academics, industry and the public.
Emerging Tech
DHS Employees Form Grassroots Community of Interest Around Artificial Intelligence
After a well-attended kickoff meeting this summer, the budding AI community of interest is looking at how best to grow.
Podcasts
Critical Update: How Marines Started 3D Printing Everything From Buckles to Barracks
Marines have a long history of MacGyver-ing what they need, but this unit has given them a 21st-century twist.
Cybersecurity
Senate Agrees Federal Cybersecurity Office Should Have Name To Match
A long-stalled bill to include “cybersecurity” in the name of the government’s central cybersecurity office is now moving forward.
IT Modernization
There’s One Less Option for Agencies Now on GSA’s Next-Gen Telecom Contract
With last year’s acquisition of Level 3 by CenturyLink, the companies’ offerings on the Enterprise Infrastructure Services contract have been consolidated.
Data
NOAA Needs to Know If Its Big Data Cloud Partnerships Are Working
The agency wants to hear from users before it takes its next steps in its open data program.
IT Modernization
12 Companies Tapped For Phase II of Agriculture’s Centers of Excellence Journey
The real work begins as a dozen companies sign on to implement the modernization strategies developed in the first phase of the program.
IT Modernization
Defense Agencies Want a Help Desk Vendor That’s Just the Right Size
The new back-office support services will be split into virtualized and on-premise help desks.
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